PRISON BREAK is back after an eight-year hiatus. But what happened to Michael Scofield and the Fox River Eight in the first four seasons?

Prison Break tells the story of two brothers: Michael Scofield – a brilliant architect, and Lincoln Burrows – who is framed for the murder of the Vice President’s brother Terrence Steadman and sentenced to death.

Although Michael doesn’t see eye-to-eye with his brother, he hatches a plan to get Lincoln out of prison – landing himself in the same institution and recruiting inmates to help with his plot.

The Fox River Eight, as they become known, includes Michael’s cellmate Fernando Sucre, C-Note – a loyal friend and drug dealer, and T-Bag – a rapist and murderer who blackmailed his way into the group.

Season 1

After Lincoln is imprisoned, Michael stages a bank robbery and is sent to Fox River where he meets inmates such as John Abruzzi – who helps to arrange a getaway plane, and Charles Westmoreland – also known as DB Cooper, who has $5 million hidden in cash.

Michael reveals that his architecture firm had previously worked on retrofitting Fox River, meaning that he had access to its blueprints.

Before the robbery, he spent four months having a huge tattoo inked on to his torso, which contains the plans to the prison and details of their escape plot.

As the men prepare to escape Michael feigns diabetes in order to get daily access to the infirmary, with the intention of stealing a key from Sara.

Michael and Sara become romantically involved. He tells her about his plan to break out of the prison, and asks her to leave the infirmary door unlocked on the night of the escape.

Sara reluctantly helps, but her guilt drives her to overdose on pills.

Meanwhile the Fox River Eight hatch their plan and successfully break out of the prison. But when they get to an air field their escape plane is nowhere to be seen.

Prison Break then and now

Tue, April 4, 2017

Prison Break: See Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell and the cast then and now.